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Tue, 22 Nov 2016 03:50:20 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.5By: eric bhttp://bullsbythehorns.com/daily-science-the-best-on-court-bull/comment-page-1/#comment-12
Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:37:20 +0000http://bullsbythehorns.com/?p=20#comment-12One player’s +/- is clearly dependent on how other players perform while he is in the game. A player can do nothing and have a fine +/- or play well and have a poor measure. this is the same reason that serious stat-guys in baseball don’t take runs batted in seriously for hitters or wins and losses for pitchers (which is, essentially, a plus/minus system). Not sure why anyone pays attention to it, but I guess that this the work of people with no math training trying to make what they do seem more rigorous. See phil rogers’s plus-minus system for rating offseasons for baseball teams. its like a kid playing doctor or architect. wearing a white coat and a stethoscope doesn’t allow one to treat patients, and throwing pluses and minuses around doesn’t necessarily help us value players accurately.
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Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:43:22 +0000http://bullsbythehorns.com/?p=20#comment-2[…] woes, Andres Nocioni was 1-for-9 but mysterously had the best plus-minus score on the team (+5). Hey, science has proven that the Bulls need him on the floor. The Boys in Red also got pretty careless with the ball – their 17 turnovers were […]
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